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"Our core market infrastructure has proven resilient under the weight of this week’s extraordinary trading volumes"

Most of the retail investors couldn't buy specific stocks on most exchanges for some time (tastytrade, ib, rh etc). I wouldn't call that "resilient".

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Not knowing how hard it is to provide the service fo their "core market infrastructure," I couldn't tell if it was just a self-complimentary way to boast or genuine technical feet.

Regardless, the prominence of the note was strange and set an immediate defensive tone.

What made it really odd was the arc of tone to "Market participants should be careful to avoid such activity." An elegant threat.

We have 5 nines uptime on all our non crashed systems!

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